The Forrest City times., 1887-12-24
Fourth regiment, Missouri state militia

For the relief of William Noit oi ShaIhirg shelby county. Mo-, in satls- faction of his claim against the ou'tVu States for the schooner Anna Sornls ami cargo. while in the serVl,e or tue limited States, in the month or August 1865. ,,i,-
 For relief of captains, pilots, englh- eers and mates Of steam vessels TOT Ic fund Of license fees and for ceItiheAscs authorizing them topIosecuts the oeSe pations from May l, 1871, to Aprn y' 1882. less the sum Of 90 cents TOT esch certificate Of license issued by .he ih spector of sfeamboats to such cap tains, pilots. engineers and mates uoi- ing said period.
 The house held no session.
 THURSDAY.
 Among the papers laid before the Senate was a communication iroW Italian residents of Washington pro posing to present to the United states A marble bust of Garibaldi, as Ink m the cbain of sympathy which all ifee men feel for the champions Of liberty and Republican government he- ferred to Committee on Library.
 Bills were introduced and referred as follows . ,,.,.a
 By MT. Call To prohibit United States judges and courts rom author iZing the borrowing of money py rc- ceiyers of railroads and other corpora tions beyond the amount or tneii an nual net incomes; also, to prohibit inc annointment of such receivers without evidence Of the financial condition oi inc comyany. He moved their refer ence to the Committee on Interstate Commerce.
 By Mir. George To protect employees and servants engaged in interstate com merce and fin the Territories and Dls- trict of Columbia.
 By Mir. Hoar: To extend the gem eral land and mining laws over the Ter ritory Of Alaska.
 Also. to facilitate the settlement and develop the resources of Alaska anu 10 opep an overland commercial route De- tween the United States, Asiatic Rus sia and Japan. ,
 By Mir. Plumb: To forfeit lands granted to the state of Michigan Tor railroad from Marquette to Ontonagon.
 Rv Mir Coke: To limit the jurisdic- ton of the United States Circuit ana 1 District Courts.
 NIT. Butler offered a resolution, which vas adonted directing the Judiciary 1 Committee to inquire and report wheth- CT. in the present state of the law, the 1 Government has the power or the At- | torney General of thS United States l the authority to institute judicial pro | coedings to yacate patent for an in vention on any ground whatever: The Senate then took up the bill in- 1 troduced by MT. stewart last Monday, | to provide for the issue of coin certiii | cates to circulate as money, and was addressed by that Senator in explanation and support of the bill. The purpose of the bill is to allow the deposit, at any mint or assay office, of gold and silver bullion in quantities not less than , ounces of gold or eO ounces of silver, and the receipts there l for of coin certificates, which are 10 Dc i a legal tender the existing gold and silver certificates cancelled when re- ceived at the Treasury; to have no gold coin hereafter. except as necessary to 1 redeem obligation expressly payable in coin; Co have the bullion received un- der thls act melted into bars and de- posited in the Treasury. and to repeal the act of the 2Sth of February, 1878, ! dollars monthly.
 Referring to the decentralization of silver by Congress in 1873, MT. stewart 1 said that that act was done 60 secretly that even the President of the United l states was ignorant of it two years i atterward, when he sent special mes sage to Congress recommending the | opening Of new hints to coin silver dollars, go as to be able to carry out the law to resume specie payments, and oi course, when the President was ignor- ant of it, the Secretary of the Treasury. who must have sent the special mes sage, must also have been ignorant of 1 1t, and Congress itself was ignorant Of it.
 If silver, he said, were made value less through being no longer used as ! money, it's production would cease; and he failure to work silver mines would result in diminishing by one third the product of gold which now comes from silver ore But the silver mining in- | dustry, prosecuted with intelligence and vigor, would furnish the world with gold and silver, keeping pace with the increase of population. II would be criminal to destroy one oi those metals for the purpose of benefit ing any favored class.
 At the close or MT Stewards remarks the bill was referred to the Committee on Finance.
 The Senate on motion of MT. Spooner. then proceeded to executive business. and soon after adjourned till Monday
 FRIDAY.
 The Senate had no session.
 In the House a concurrent resolution to adjourn over the holidays gave Mir Reed of Maine an opportunity to make political speech urging the necessity for reducing the surplus. He was re- piled to by MT. Hatch of Missouri. The house adjourned to Monday.